Wall framing bowed.

tom418June 12, 2012

It's time for painting the master b/r. I noticed that a bedroom wall is bulging.

The framing seems to have one stud that's not in line with th others. If I lay a yardstick on the sheetrock on one side of the stud, there's a gap of one inch on the other side. To further confuse things, on the other side of the wall (in a bathroom) there is no depression in that wall, AND the sheetrock seems to be tight against the same stud

The floor molding is also bowed, which to me sounds like the framing was not straight, and it's not just a matter of the one stud being out of kilter. Any suggestions?

There's no fixing this without ripping out the drywall and assessing the actual problem behind the wall. It could be as simple as planing down a stud slightly or as complex as re-routing a pipe that a plumber didn't center in the cavity.

kudzu9: I also had a sheetrocked-over outlet, but that resulted in a "localized" bulge (the rockers forgot to rotozip the box).

The bulge I'm talking about runs top to bottom, including the soleplate! I'm puzzled becuase if its a bowed stud, or 2 x 6 that's actually thicker than 5.5 inches, then I wouldn't expect the floor molding to be affected.

Like Brickeyee said, I won't know until I open it up. I dread this.....